Motor Museum · Motorcycles
Two wheels changed the world too.
Motorcycles deserve more than a corner of the car museum. This collection follows mass mobility, racing, scooters, superbikes, tourers, cruisers, off-road machines, adventure motorcycles and electric bikes through the manufacturers that shaped them.
Manufacturers
Enter through the company.
Each manufacturer page tells the founder story, explains the engineering identity and then lays out its bikes chronologically as museum plaques.
Honda
Honda turned a post-war need for inexpensive mobility into the world’s largest motorcycle story, then repeatedly used racing and mass production to move new engineering into ordinary riders’ hands.
Yamaha
Yamaha Motor began in 1955 with the YA-1 and quickly made racing, two-stroke performance and later four-stroke innovation central to its identity.
Kawasaki
Kawasaki motorcycles emerged from a much larger engineering group, bringing aircraft and heavy-industry thinking into machines that became famous for speed and engine performance.
Suzuki
Suzuki moved from loom manufacture into motorised transport and built a motorcycle reputation around lightweight machines, two-strokes and exceptionally influential sport bikes.
Ducati
Ducati’s story moves from electronics to small engines, desmodromic valve gear, racing twins and some of the most recognisable superbikes ever produced.
BMW Motorrad
BMW’s motorcycle identity began with the R 32 in 1923: a boxer twin and shaft drive established a technical vocabulary the company still revisits a century later.
Triumph
Triumph links Britain’s early motorcycle industry to the Bonneville, café-racer culture and a modern three-cylinder performance identity.
Harley-Davidson
Harley-Davidson turned the American V-twin cruiser into a cultural object whose history is inseparable from touring, customisation, clubs and the American road.
Indian Motorcycle
Indian is one of America’s foundational motorcycle names, with the Scout and Chief making the brand central to the first great era of US motorcycling.
Royal Enfield
Royal Enfield connects the British industry of the early twentieth century with long-running production in India and a modern revival built around simple singles and twins.
KTM
KTM grew from an Austrian repair and engineering business into an off-road specialist, then carried lightweight competition thinking into adventure and naked road bikes.
Aprilia
Aprilia moved from bicycles and small-capacity machines into racing two-strokes, big V-twins and the compact V4 superbike.
Moto Guzzi
Moto Guzzi has built motorcycles at Mandello del Lario since 1921, moving from horizontal singles to the transverse V-twin that became its most recognisable mechanical signature.
MV Agusta
MV Agusta combines one of Grand Prix racing’s richest names with Italian road bikes designed as mechanical and visual objects.
Norton
Norton’s museum story is built around racing singles, the Featherbed frame, the Commando and repeated attempts to reinvent the British performance motorcycle.
BSA
BSA became one of the world’s largest motorcycle producers, with practical machines, sporting singles and twins central to Britain’s mass-motorcycling era.
Husqvarna
Husqvarna’s motorcycle history stretches from early road machines to championship-winning motocross, supermoto and modern Scandinavian-styled street bikes.
Benelli
Benelli’s long Pesaro history spans racing singles, ambitious multi-cylinder road bikes and modern middleweight touring and naked machines.
Vincent
Vincent built some of the fastest and most technically distinctive post-war British motorcycles, culminating in the Black Shadow and Black Lightning.
Brough Superior
Brough Superior deliberately positioned the motorcycle as a luxury, high-speed bespoke product long before the modern premium motorcycle market existed.
Vespa
Vespa made the step-through scooter one of the defining mobility and design objects of post-war Europe.
Bimota
Bimota built its reputation by placing proven engines inside radical chassis, turning frame design and low-volume engineering into the main attraction.
Laverda
Laverda’s great road bikes were robust, long-distance Italian performance machines, culminating in the 750 SFC and three-cylinder Jota.
Zero Motorcycles
Zero brought battery-electric propulsion into series-production motorcycles years before most major manufacturers committed to the format.
Museum highlights
Machines that changed the category.
The featured layer prioritises historical consequence: mobility, new engine layouts, racing homologation, design and market change — not simply price or top speed.